May 2 1982 The Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine Conqueror some 30 miles outside the 200-mile ‘exclusion zone’ that Britain had declared around the Falkland Islands. Some 260 crewmen perished. 7 1812 Robert Browning, English poet and playwright, born in Camberwell, London. 8 1987 Eight ... Read more
